The MER-KA-BA

                        Last update Mar 16, 1995

I will append later some additional information about other ways to
realize Merkabah, for now:

The Teaching Of The MER-KA-BA (Drunvalo Melchizedek)

Beside, Interdimensional Traveling  will give you some additional
background of Mer-Ka-Ba, and especially Beam- Spaceships discuss the
difference between internal and external realized Mer-Ka-Ba.

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                      The Teaching Of The MER-KA-BA

                   The Teaching On Spherical Breathing

                         By Drunvalo Melchizedek

Gabriel Hettes (HettesG@darden.gbus.virginia.edu) 21 Dec 94 transcribed:

Like the sun, we must breath, radiating out to all life. And from all
life we will receive our manna.

Begin by creating a place in your home that is used only for this
meditation. Make a space where no one will walk through or disturb you,
possibly in your bedroom. A small altar with a candle and a cushion or
pillow to sit upon may be helpful. Make this place holy. It is here that
you will learn to create the MER-KA-BA around your body and make
conscious contact with your higher self.

Once each day, enter into this meditation, until the time comes when you
are a conscious breather, remembering with each breath your intimate
connection with God.

To begin the meditation, first sit down and relax. Let the worries of
the day go. Breathe rhythmically and shallow. Be aware of your breath
and relax. When you feel the tension begin to fade, begin to open your
heart. Feel Love. Feel Love for all life everywhere. Continue to breathe
rhythmically, being aware of your breath, and feel the Love moving
through your spirit. When the FEELING of love is in your beingness, you
are ready to begin to move towards the experience to the MER-KA-BA.
Without this Love, no amount of knwoledge will create the MER-KA-BA. To
the degree you are able to Love, will be the degree you will be able to
experience the MER-KA-BA .

The following is an overview of the meditation to reach the MER-KA-BA .
There are seventeen breaths to reach completion. The first six are for
balancing of the polarities within your eight electical circuits, and,
also, for the cleansing of these circuits. The next seven, which are
quite different, are to reestablish the proper pranic flow through your
body, and to recreate Spherical Breathing within your body. The
fourteenth breath is unique unto itself. It changes the balance of
pranic energy within your body from third dimensional to fourth
dimensional awareness. The last three breaths recreate the rotating
fields of the MER-KA-BA within and around your body.

The instructions: The following instructions will be broken down into
four areas: MIND, BODY, BREATH and HEART

FIRST BREATH: Inhale

HEART: Open your heart and feel love for all life. If you cannot do
this, you must at least open to this love as much as is possible for
you. This is the most important instruction of all.

MIND: Become aware of the male tetrahedron (the apex facing up to thge
sun, the point facing to the front for male, the point to the back for
females) filled with the brilliant white light surrounding your body.
Visualize it the best you can. If you cannot visualize it, sense or feel
it surrounding you.

BODY: At the same moment of inhalation, place your hands in the mudra of
your thumb and first finger touching. Remember, lightly touch your
fingers, and do not allow your fingers to touch each other or any other
object. Keep your palms facing up.

BREATH: At this same moment, with empty lungs, begin to breath in a
complete yogic manner. Breathe through your nostrils only, except at
certain places which will be described. Simply put, breath from your
stomach first, then your diaphragm, and finally your chest. Do this in
one movement, not three parts. The exhale is completed either by holding
the chest firm and relaxing the stomach, slowly releasing the air, or by
holding the stomach firm and relaxing the chest. The most important
aspect is that this breathing must be rhythmic. Begin by using seven
seconds in and seven seconds out, but as you get familiar with this
meditation, find your own rhythm. The following instructions for a
complete Yogic Breath are from "the Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath" by
Yogi Ramacharake. Perhaps this description will be helpful.

Breathing through the nostrils, inhale steadily, first filling the lower
part of the lungs, which is accomplished by bringing into play the
diaphagm, which descending exerts a gentle pressure on the abdominal
organs, pushing forward the front walls of the abdomen. Then fill the
midddle part of the lungs, pusing out the lower ribs, breastbone and
chest. Then fill the higher portion of the lungs, protruding the upper
chest, thus lifting the chest, including the upper six or even pairs of
ribs. At first reading it may appear that this breath consists of three
distinct movements. This, however, is not the correct idea. The
inhalation is continuous, the entire chest cavity from the lowered
diaphragm to the highest point of the chest in the region of the collar
bone, being expanded with a uniform movement. Avoid a jerky series of
inhalations, and strive to attain a steady continuous action. Practice
will soon overcome the tendency to divide the inhalation into three
movements, and will result in a uniform continuous breath. You will be
able to complete the inhalation in a few seconds after a little
practice.

Exhale quite slowly, holding the chest in a firm position, and drawing
the abdomen in a little and lifting it upward as the air leaves the
lungs. When the air is entirely exhaled, relax the chest and abdomen. A
little practice will render this part of the exercise easy, and the
movement once acquired will be afterward performed almost automatically.

FIRST BREATH: Exhale

HEART: Love

MIND: Become aware of the female tetrahedron, (apex pointing to the
earth, point facing to the back for males, point facing to the front for
females), also filled with the brilliant white light

BODY: Keep the same mudra.

BREATH: Do NOT hesitate at the top of the inhalation to begin the
exhalation. Exhale quite slowly, approximately seven seconds, in the
Yogic manner. When the air is out of the lungs, without forcing, relax
the chest and abdomen and HOLD the breath. When you feel pressure to
breathe again, after about five seconds or so, then do the following:

MIND: Be aware of the flat equilateral triangle at the top of the female
tetrahedron located in the horizontal plane that passes through your
chest at the sternum. In a flash, and with a pulse like energy, send
taht triangular plane down through the female tetrahedron. It gets
smaller as it goe down and pushes out the tip or apex of the tetrahedron
all the negative energy of the mudra or electrical circuit, a light will
shoot out of the apex toward the center of the Earth. The Mind exercise
is performed along with the following BODY movements.

BODY: Move your eyes slightly toward each other, or, in other words,
slightly cross your eyes. Now bring them up to the top of their sockets,
or in other words, look up. Also, this looking up motion should not be
extreme. You will feel a tingling feeling between your eyes in the area
of your third eye . You can now look down to the lowest point you can,
as fast as you can. You should feel an electrical sensation move down
your spine. The MIND and BODY must coordinate the above mental exercis e
with the eye movements. The eyes look down from their up position at the
same time the mind sees the triangular horizontal plane of the female
tetrahedron move down to the apex of the female tetrahedron. This
combined exercise will clean out the negative thoughts and feelings that
have entered into your electrical system. Specifically, it will clean
out the part of your electrical system that is associated with the
particular mudra you are using. Immediately upon pulsing the energy down
your spine, you change mudras to the next one and begin the entire cycle
over again. The next five breaths are a repeat of the first breath with
the following mudra changes:

Second breath mudra: Thumb and second finger together Third breath
mudra: Thumb and third finger together Fourth breath mudra: Thumb and
little finger together Fifth breath mudra: Thumb and first finger
together (same as first breath) Sixth breath mudra: Thumb and second
finger together(same as second breath)

The first part, the first six breaths, the balancing of the polarities,
and the cleansing of your electircal system is now complete. You are now
ready for the next part, the next seven breaths.

Here an entirely new breathing pattern begins. You do not need to
visualize the star tetrahedron at this time. Only the tube that runs
through the star, from the apex of the male tetrahedron above your head
to the apex of the female tetrahedron below your feet, needs to be seen
and worked with. This extends one hand length above your head and one
hand length below your feet. The diameter of YOUR tube will be the size
of the hole formed by YOUR thumb and forefinger touching.

BREATH NUMBER SEVEN: Inhale

HEART: Love. There is another refinement here that can be used after you
have perfected this meditation. It will be discussed in class.

MIND: Visualize or sense the tube running through your body. The instant
you begin the seventh inhale, see the brilliant white light of the prana
moving down the tube from the top and up the tube from the bottom at the
same time. This movement is almost instantaneous. The point where these
two light beams meet within your body is controlled by the mind and is a
vast science known throughout the universe. In this teaching however, we
will only be shown what is necessary, that which will take you from
third to fourth dimensional awareness. In this case you will direct the
two beams of prana to meet at your navel, or more correct, within your
body at navel level, inside the tube. The moment the two beams of prana
meet, which is just as the inhale begins, a sphere of white light or
prana is formed at the meeting point about the size of a grapefruit
centered on the tube. It all happens in an instant. As you continue to
take the inhale of the seventh breath, the sphere of prana begins to
concentrate and grow slowly.

BODY For the next seven breaths use the same mudra for both inhale and
exhale, the thumb, first and second touching together palms up.

BREATH: Deep rhythmic Yogic breathing, seven seconds in and seven
seconds out. There is no holding of the breath from now on. The flow of
prana from the two poles will not stop or change in any way when you go
from inhale to exhale. It will be a continuous flow that will not stop
for a long as you breath in this manner, even after death.

SEVENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: The prana sphere centered at the navel continues to grow. By the
time of the full exhale, the prana sphere will be approximately eight or
nine inches in diameter.

BREATH: Do not force the air out of your lungs. When your lungs are
empty naturally, immediately begin the next breath.

EIGHTH BREATH: Inhale

HEART: Love.

MIND: The prana sphere continues to concentrate life force energy and
grow in size

EIGHT BREATH: Exhale

MIND: The prana sphere continues to grow in size and will reach maximum
size at the end of this breath. This maximum size is different for each
person. If you put your longest finger in the center of your navel, the
line on your wrist defining your hand will show you the radius of the
maximum size of this sphere for YOU. This sphere of prana cannot grow
larger.

NINTH BREATH: Inhale

MIND: The prana sphere cannot grow larger, so what happens is the prana
begins to concentrate within the sphere. The visual appearance is that
the sphere grows BRIGHTER.

BREATH: Sphere grows brighter and brighter as you inhale.

NINTH BREATH: Exhale

BREATH: As you exhale, the sphere continues to grow brighter and
brighter.

TENTH BREATH: Inhale

MIND: About half way through this inhale, as the sphere continues to
brighter, the prana sphere reaches critical mass. The sphere ignites
into a sun, a brilliant blinding ball of white light. You are now ready
for the next step.

TENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: At the moment of exhale, the small sphere two hand lengths in
diameter bulges to expand. In one second, combined with the breath
talked about below, the sphere expands quickly out to the sphere of
Leonardo, out at your finger tips of your extended arms. Your body is
now completely enclosed within a huge sphere of brilliant white light.
You have returned to the ancient form of spherical breathing. However,
at this point, this sphere is not stable. You MUST breath three more
times to keep the sphere stable.

BREATH: At the moment of exhale, make a small hole with your lips and
blow out your air with pressure. As you feel the sphere begin to bulge,
all within the first second of this exhale, let all of your air out
rapidly. The sphere will expand at that moment.

PART3: ELEVENTH, TWELFTH and THIRTEENTH BREATH: Inhale and Exhale

MIND: Relax and just feel the flow of the prana flowing from the two
poles and meeting at the navel and then expanding out to the large
sphere

BREATH: Breath rhythmically and deep. At the end of the thirteenth
breath you have stabilized the large sphere and are ready for the
important 14th breath.

THE FOURTEENTH BREATH

HEART: Love

MIND: On the inhale of the 14th breath, at the very beginning of the
breath, move the point where the two beams of prana meet from the navel
to the sternum, the fourth dimensional chakra. The entire large sphere,
along with the original sphere, which is also still contained within the
large sphere, moves up to the new meeting point within the tube. Though
this is very easy to do, it is an extremely powerful movement. Breathing
from this new point within the tube will inevitably change your
awareness from third to fourth dimensional consciousness, or from earth
consciousness to Christ consciousness. It will take awhile, but as I
have said , it is inevitable.

BODY: This mudra will be used for the rest of the meditation. Place the
left palm on top of the right palm for males and the right palm on top
of the left palm for females. It is a mudra that relaxes.

BREATH: Rhythmic breath and deep. However, if you continue to breathe
from your Christ center without moving on to the MER-KA-BA, which is
what is recommended until you have made contact with your Higher Self,
then shift to a shallow breath. In other words, breath rhythmically but
in a comfortable manner where your attention is more on the flow of
energy moving up and down the tube meeting at the sternum and expanding
out to the large sphere. Just feel the flow. Use your feminine side to
just be. At this point don t think, just breath, feel and be. Feel your
connection to All Life through the Christ Breath. Remember your intimate
connection with God.

The Mer-Ka-Ba, The Vehicle Of Ascension

The Last Three Breaths

You are asked not to attempt this FOURTH PART until you have made
contact with your Higher Self, AND your Higher Self has given you
permission to proceed. This part is to be taken seriously. The energies
that will come into and around your body and spirit are of tremendous
power. If you are not ready, you could hurt yourself. If your Higher
Self gives you permission to enter into the MER-KA-BA, then don t fear,
for you will be ready.

FIFTEENTH BREATH: Inhale:

HEART: Love

MIND: Be aware of the whole star tetrahedron. Realize that there are
three whole star tetrahedrons superimposed over each other. One is the
body itself, and is locked in place and never, except under certain
conditions, moves. It is placed around the body according to maleness or
femaleness. The second whole star tetrahedron is male in nature, it is
electrical, is literally the human mind and rotates counter-clockwise
relative to your body looking out, or to put it another way, it rotates
toward your left side. The third whole star tetrahedron is female in
nature, is magnetic, is literally the human emotional body and rotates
clockwise relative to your body looking out, or to put it another way,
it rotates toward your right side.

To be clear, we are not telling you to rotate the male tetrahedron one
way and the female the other way. When we say rotate the whole star
tetrahedron, we mean the whole thing.

On the inhale of the fifteenth breath, as you are inhaling, you will say
to yourself, in your head, the code words, EQUAL SPEED. This will tell
your mind that you want the two rotatable whole star tetrahedrons to
begin spinning in opposite directions at equal speeds at the time of the
exhale. Meaning that for every complete rotation of the mind
tetrahedrons, there will be a complete rotation of the emotional
tetrahedrons.

BODY: Continue the mudra of the folded hands from now on.

BREATH: Breath Yogic and rhythmically an deeply again, but only for the
next three breaths, after that return to the shallow breathing.

FIFTEENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: The two sets of tetrahedrons take off spinning. In an instant,
they will be moving at exactly one third the speed of light at their
outer tips. You probably will not be able to see this because of their
tremendous speed, but you can feel it. What you have just done is to
start the MOTOR of the MER-KA-BA. You will not go anywhere, or have an
experience. It is just like starting the motor of a car, but having the
transmission in neutral.

BREATH: Make a small hole with your lips just like you did for breath
Number Ten. Blow out in the same manner, and as you do, feel the two
sets of tetrahedrons take off spinning.

SIXTEENTH BREATH: Inhale

MIND: This is the most amazing breath. On the inhale, as you are
inhaling, say to yourself, in your head, THIRTY-FOUR - TWENTY-ONE. This
is the code to your mind to spin the two sets of tetrahedrons at a ratio
of 34-21. Meaning the Mind tetrahedrons spinning to the left will go
around 34 times while the emotional tetrahedrons spinning to the right
will go around 21 times. As the two sets speed up the ratio will remain
constant.

BREATH: Breathe rhythmically and Yogic.

SIXTEENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: As you let out the breathe, the two sets of tetrahedrons take off
from their one third speed of light setting to two third speed of light
in an instant. As they approach two thirds speed of light speed a
phenomena takes place. A disk about 55 feet in diameter forms around the
body at the level of the base of the spine. And the sphere of energy
that is centered around the two sets of tetrahedrons forms with the disk
to create a shape that looks like a FLYING SAUCER around the body. This
energy matrix is called the MER-KA-BA. However, it is not stable. If you
see or sense the MER-KA-BA around you at this point, you will know it to
be unstable. It will be slowly wobbling. Therefore Breath Number
Seventeen is necessary.

BREATH: Same as breath 16, make a small hole in your lips, and blow out
with pressure. It is at this point that the speeds increases. As you
feel the speed increasing, let out all your breath with force. This
action will cause the higher speed to be fully obtained and the MER-KA-
BA to be formed.

SEVENTEENTH BREATH: Inhale

HEART: Remember, unconditional love for all life must be felt through
out all of this meditation or no results will be realized.

MIND: As you breathe in, say to yourself, in your head, the code NINE
TENTHS THE SPEED OF LIGHT. This code will tell your mind to increase the
speed of the MER-KA-BA to nine tenths the speed of light which will
stabilize the rotating field of energy. It will also do something else.
This third dimensional universe that we live in is tuned to 9/10 the
speed of light. Every electron in your body is rotating around every
atom in your body at 9/10 the speed of light. This is the reason this
particular speed is selected.

BREATH: Breathe rhythmically and in a Yogic manner.

SEVENTEENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: The speed increases to 9/10 the speed of light and stabilizes the
MER-KA-BA.

BREATH: Same as breath 15 and 16, make a small hole in your lips, and
blow out with pressure. As you feel the speed take off, let all your
breath out with force. You are now in your stable and Third
dimensionally tuned MER-KA-BA. With the help of your Higher Self, you
will understand what this really means.

EIGHTEENTH BREATH:

This very special breath will not be taught here. You must receive it
from Your Higher Self. It is the breath that will take you through the
speed of light into the fourth dimension. You will disappear from this
world and reappear in another one that will be your new home for awhile.
This is not the end, but the beginning of an ever expanding
consciousness returning you HOME to your FATHER.

If you share this information with others, please make sure they have
all the knowledge leading to this understanding. If they cannot get to a
workshop, then let them see the videos of this workshop. If they cannot
do that, then at least lead them through with the photographs. If I can
be of help in any way, or if there is anything that is not clear, please
give me a call or write.

In love and Service,

(signed) DRUNVALO

DRUNVALO MELCHIZEDEK c/o HUMMINGBIRD PO BOX 1753 WIMBERLY, TX 78676 512-
847-5705

This address may be out of date. There are two books I am aware of that
contain the info that leads upto this meditation in the workshops.

One is "Matrix IV: The Equivideum: Paradigms and Dimensions of Human
Evolution and Consciousness", Valdemar Valerian, First Ed., Leading Edge
Research (PO Box 481-MU58, Yelm, WA 98597), 1993, 1111 pages, 1000+
line-item index, with introduction and material by Michael Topper.
$65.00 Postpaid

Another book that recaps Drunvalo's workshop is "Nothing in this book is
true, but it's exactly how things are" By Bob Frissell (ISBN 1-883319-
01-3). Call 800-870-1850 to order for $12.95 or

   North Atlantic Books
   PO Box 12327
   Berkeley, California  94712


In love and light I release this meditation from the veil of secrecy to
reside in the light, I AM that I AM

Gabriel B'nai Elohim